Get swift container URL using swiftclient (also works with python-swiftclient <= 0.8)

swift-container-url.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# Credit to Chris Stanford for this

import os
import sys
from swiftclient import client


userName = os.getenv('OS_USERNAME')
userPass = os.getenv('OS_PASSWORD')
userTenant = os.getenv('OS_TENANT_NAME')
authURL = os.getenv('OS_AUTH_URL')
regionName = os.getenv('OS_REGION_NAME')

if not (userName and userPass and userTenant and authURL and regionName):
    print "Unable to find auth parameters in environment (OS_USERNAME, etc.)"
    sys.exit(1)

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print "Usage: {} <container>".format(os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]))
    sys.exit(1)

containerName = sys.argv[1]

swift = client.Connection(authURL, userName, userPass, 5, auth_version='2.0',
    os_options={'tenant_name': userTenant, 'region_name': regionName})

head = swift.head_container(containerName)
path= "{}/{}".format(swift.url, containerName)
print path